Epilepsy, childhood migraine, practitioner self care, CNS nutrition

Covers Epilepsy v childhood migraine, communicating to parents when they have medical confidence melting and giving them alternatives to hang on to in a chiropractic domain, philosophy and competition challenges in the office, specifics on lifting sphenoid and gag reflex threshold. How to explain threshold to parents and clients.

Communication

• Give homework to give families back control.

Management then tells them to call back and get checked. Calling back to get checked is part of the homework.

• Changing diagnoses (example: epilepsy → migraine).

Some clients hold onto one diagnosis and forget there is hope.

• “I get adjusted myself. I want you to have the same.”

Patients advice- small goes a long way

• Cranial work improves CSF and blood flow to the brain.

• Small advice goes a long way:

TMJ issues in bald patients — cold stresses the system. Keep warmth in the body (beanie).

• Avoid overtightening suboccipitals and TMJ strain.

• Point-dog hold

Hold 10 seconds to reset posture and nervous system awareness.

Teach patients to “snap to attention.”

Nervous System Nutrition

• Nutrition = basics of feeding the nervous system.

• GABA

• Building block of brain scaffolding

• Stress depletes it

• Research shows it can reduce tics and seizures

• Improves clarity, focus, and response to adjustment

• Poor suture texture (“wood-like”) + low CSF = need amino acids to build tissue strength.

• Omegas improve fat conduction and tissue strength.

• Ornithine supports CSF production.

• If patients don’t have good nutritional input, adjustments happen on “squishy tissue” and won’t be as effective.

Practitioner Self-Care

• Self-care = life-giving back into your tank (Mother Nature).

• Low suboccipital tone + looking down + fast impulse = mini whiplash, being the bench higher.

• The energy exchange is real — protect your own system.

• Switch off when you leave practice.

• Separate work and home (uniform mindset).

Create a transition ritual.

• Write down unfinished thoughts at the end of the day so you start fresh tomorrow.

• Use doorway resets between patients to “wash off” emotional load.

• Get adjusted — even if you have to travel.

• Strength work needs to happen.

• Avoid thrusting while flexed forward — protect heart and thoracic region.

Shoulder soreness is better than lower back injury → raise the table.

Language & Framing

• Replace “bad” with “poor.”

Examples:

• Poor neurological nutrition

• Poor blood supply

• Poor CSF function

• Neural tube defects from poor nutrition

Philosophy & Mindset

• Build an appetite for tolerance.

Don’t take offense.

Don’t need everyone to agree with you.

• Keep your toolkit growing.

Stop learning = stale practice.

• If you don’t wish to change, you’ll get the same results.

• Chiropractic mastery takes decades.

Do what you can to get patients the best result today.

Competition Perspective

• Remember why we’re here: to love and serve patients.

• If my work helps — great.

If yours helps — awesome.

If neither helps — be brave enough to advise to change to a different chiro

Put the “shame blanket” down.

Borrow solutions instead of competing.

• Teach through third-person stories (“I know someone who…”).

Sphenoid Technique Notes

• Case: sensitive gag reflex - Technique:

• In-and-out fast

• Poke and retreat

• Let gag reflex assist

• Use swirl and fanning motion

• Flexed sphenoid drops inferiorly toward mouth — should be dome-shaped.

Threshold & Emotional Release

• Nervous system needs threshold stimulus for change.

• Crying isn’t bad — it resets the system

Language During Treatment

• “Stay with me.”

• “Take a breath.”

• “This is a journey.”

• “We’ll review after — we’ll be good at the end.”

Pain Language & Consent

• “When it hurts, I know I’m in the right place.”

• Your body stored this. My job is to help you release it.

• Pain is like a USB holding old injury patterns.

• Ask the brain if it still needs to hold the pattern or if it’s time to let go.

• Close eyes. Focus inward. Stay present. Don’t run away.

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